Al Gores utility bills released to the public

A couple of days ago a group in Al Gores home town managed to get hold of his utility bills and published them to the public (article).

These bills show that Al Gores home consumes 20 times the average American homes energy. For someone that is supposed to be promoting green living this is pretty high. The question is, does this make Al Gore a bad environmentalist?

You could say both yes and no. Yes obviously because he is using up so much energy, but at the same time no because he is out their promoting green issues. He's made films about it, he's even organising world wide concerts about it, which is creating it's own standard for a greener concert.

All in all the guy is doing a lot of good for promoting green issues. I'm sure that now this information has been leaked he will do something about his energy usage, a bit of practicing what he's preaching.

I just think he should be given an opportunity to right his wrongs before he gets shot down by politicians and other green campaigners who now think he's a hypocrite. At the end of the day no one is perfect and at least he's trying to do something.

I think before I make a final opinion about him, I'll wait to see how he handles this situation.